Jennifer Smart

(she/her)

Video editor & animator, Scripps News Longform

Washington, DC US

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Jennifer is a DC-based documentaries editor and animator, eldritch illustrator, and tabletop RPG enthusiast.

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Jennifer is an Emmy-nominated editor and 2D animator who has been working in the news documentary industry for more than eight years. She spent two years as an editor at National Geographic Digital, and currently works at Scripps News editing and creating animations for digital documentaries, primarily Next Level and Bellingcat on Scripps News (formerly known as Newsy+Bellingcat). She spends her free time dabbling in horror and fantasy artwork and illustrating for her various Dungeons & Dragons campaigns.

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Tracking Impacts of Invasion in Ukraine After One Year Of War

From ground level accounts to satellite imagery, Scripps News and Bellingcat take viewers through a year of conflict in Ukraine, showing the human costs of Russia's invasion and the war that continues to rage in eastern Europe. Open-source reporting fuels this half-hour documentary presentation.

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Video Games Are Teaching Players Real (And Alternate) History

History-based video games allow their players to engage with the past in completely new ways. But like every medium, the genre still has limits. There’s a whole genre of similar video games that play around with the “what ifs” of the past — and in doing so, these games have started to teach us about history in new ways. Turning history into a game presents some unique challenges for game developers — and raises questions about how those histories are portrayed.

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Catfish Kingdom

This documentary charts the life, loss, and triumph of Ed Scott Jr., a Mississippi farmer who waged a decades-long fight against discrimination.

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The Freedom Singer

In the early 1960s, The Freedom Singers traveled across the country to raise funds for the civil rights movement and spread a message of hope.

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